noun
- feces or excrement; filth or dirt
Usage: formal or literary; often used figuratively to mean something morally repulsive or vile
Examples
- The stable was covered in ordure and needed immediate cleaning.
- The critic dismissed the novel as literary ordure.
- Medieval streets were often littered with ordure and refuse.
- He spoke of his opponent's conduct as moral ordure.
- The sanitation workers removed the ordure from the public square.
- The poet used ordure as a metaphor for corruption and decay.